Kurt Eisner

Kurt Eisner (14 May 1867-21 February 1919) was a German socialist revolutionary who led the uprising that overthrew the Kingdom of Bavaria during the November Revolution of 1918.

Biography
Kurt Eisner was born on 14 May 1867 in Berlin, German Empire to a Jewish family, and he became a journalist in Marburg after studying philosophy. He joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1898, and he would become a freelance journalist in Munich, Bavaria after a brief stay if Nuremberg. In 1918, he incited a munitions workers' strike, and he was jailed for nine months for "treason". On 8 November 1918, he declared Bavaria to be a free state and republic after being released, becoming the de facto premier of Bavaria after the November Revolution toppled the Kingdom of Bavaria. However, he was hated by many Germans for insisting that Germany started World War I, and he was assassinated by nationalist Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley.